To: K-list
Recieved: 1999/12/03 07:20
Subject: Re: [K-list] Genetic Trauma in children of war vets.
From: Ville Vainio

On Fri, 3 Dec 1999, Martin Thompson wrote:

> 23:59:54 Fri, 3 Dec 1999
> Christopher Wynter at Christopher Wynter <wynterATnospamone.net.au> writes:
> >How much of the behavioural problems we witness in our children
> >are the direct inherited effect of war service by their parents ...
> >and their grandparents

> Sounds like an interesting study. If the cause is genetic, however
> (which I doubt), this will only be shown if psychological effects such
> as any effects caused by being brought up by traumatized parents are
> ruled out. Such a study would probably have to be conducted by looking
> at the results on identical twins who were separated at birth with one
> of each pair fostered out (this is the normal way of separating out
> genetic from environmental causes).

And even that wouldn't 100% prove genetic effects. The child would still
have been carried in a womb of a mother that has stress over husband who
is/has been in the war (or, in the case of grandmother, she herself has
already been affected).

Foolproof study: take two mothers (identical twins) and two fathers
(ditto). Both men go to fight a war or two, then fertilize the women who
don't know which sperm they are receiving. The women will raise the kids
identically, preferably in the same household. Repeat few thousand times,
or until the results are clear. Ethical considerations are left as an
excercise for the reader, or the shocked future generations :-).

Ville Vainio - vvainioATnospamtp.spt.fi http://www.tp.spt.fi/~vvainio
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